Welcome January!
School reopens on Monday, January 4, 2010!
December Book-It is underway! The goal for this month is to read 7 books.
Please encourage your child to read at home. I know the children can do it! I
look forward to receiving the Book-It forms from your child by the end of the
month.
Please make sure to read the decodable readers I send home every week with
your child. Encourage your child to read the short stories to you. These
decodable readers are filled with high frequency words and spelling words we
learn in class. This extra reinforcement will only help to improve your
child's reading ability and help to make your child a more confident reader!
Thank you for all your help at home.
Please remind your child to bring his/her borrowed library book back by this
Wednesday!
Our Harcourt Reading series is underway and the children are working very
hard. Please check your child's folder for the Home-Connection letter I send
at the beginning of each new lesson every Monday. This week, we will begin
Lesson 12. Children will take their Reading, Language Arts and Spelling
tests this Friday.
Lesson 12 Spelling words: shop, shot, shut, rush, fish, wish, for, from,
more, very
Lesson 12 High Frequency words: came, could, were, gold, saw, happy, night
Lesson 12 Robust words: regret, greedy, consequences, reward, cruel
In Math, we are working on Chapter 5- Subtraction strategies to the number
12. Although we have completed our chapters on addition, please continue to
review addition problems at home with your child. Any additional practice
will only reinforce your child's computation skills.
It is very important to read with your child every day. Please review the
words cards I send home every week. This practice will only help to improve
your child's reading ability.
We read new poems and stories in Reading everyday. Ask your child to
recall the titles of the stories and what the story was about. Ask
questions about the story. Who were the characters? What was the story
about? What are your feelings about the story? This will aid in their
comprehension of the reading material.
The single most important thing you can do is to read with your child on a
daily basis.
